Clause 3 - Exemptions
Health Bill
9:00 am
Caroline Flint (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health; Don Valley, Labour)
I looked at the report of the Health Committee’s interview of the former Health Secretary. He was referring to the increase—I think that I mentioned it on Tuesday—in off-licence sales, videos and DVDs. More families are socialising at home in both England and Ireland. He pointed to the importance of recognising that whatever we do in respect of public places, we should never take our eye off the ball in relation to families. The fact is that adults smoke in the home and in the car in front of their children. Although we do not seek to legislate to stop that, we should make every effort to make people aware of the dangers to themselves and to their children of smoking.
Mr. Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire) (Con) rose—